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October 3, 2026

50 legendary internet rabbit holes
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50 legendary internet rabbit holes you can spend hours exploringπŸ‘‡

  1. zoom.earth β€” Watch the world via live satellite imagery
  2. flightradar24.com β€” See every plane currently in the sky
  3. marinetraffic.com β€” Track all ships at sea in real time
  4. windy.com β€” Live map of winds and storms
  5. lightningmaps.org β€” Watch lightning strikes hitting Earth in real time
  6. earthquake.usgs.gov β€” Live list of recent earthquakes
  7. submarinecablemap.com β€” Ocean cables carrying the internet
  8. globalforestwatch.org β€” Watch forests disappear from space
  9. worldometers.info β€” The world's statistics, second by second
  10. internetlivestats.com β€” Current number of tweets and searches being posted
  11. thetruesize.com β€” Compare the true sizes of countries
  12. oldmapsonline.org β€” Maps from centuries ago
  13. davidrumsey.com β€” Archive of 150,000 historical maps
  14. openstreetmap.org β€” World map drawn by volunteers
  15. window-swap.com β€” Look out the window of a random person around the world
  16. virtualvacation.us β€” Virtual walks through cities
  17. mapcrunch.com β€” Teleport to a random spot on Earth
  18. atlasobscura.com β€” Catalog of the world's strangest places
  19. neal.fun β€” Interactive knowledge experiences
  20. htwins.net/scale2 β€” Scale journey from atom to universe (Updated HTML5 link)
  21. eyes.nasa.gov β€” Explore the solar system in 3D
  22. stellarium-web.org β€” Real sky map in your browser
  23. apod.nasa.gov β€” NASA's astronomy picture of the day
  24. images.nasa.gov β€” NASA's entire visual archive, free
  25. pudding.cool β€” Visual articles told through data
  26. ourworldindata.org β€” The state of the world with real data
  27. gapminder.org β€” What we mistakenly think we know about the world
  28. informationisbeautiful.net β€” Visualizing complex data
  29. data.worldbank.org β€” World Bank's open data
  30. data.tuik.gov.tr β€” Turkey's official statistics database
  31. archive.org β€” Archive of millions of books, films, and software
  32. gutenberg.org β€” 70,000 free books whose copyrights have expired
  33. openlibrary.org β€” Record of every book in the world
  34. loc.gov β€” U.S. Library of Congress digital archive
  35. europeana.eu β€” Europe's cultural heritage archive
  36. dp.la β€” America's digital library collection
  37. artsandculture.google.com β€” Tour museums from home
  38. rijksmuseum.nl β€” Download artworks in high resolution
  39. wikiart.org β€” Archive of 250,000 artworks
  40. publicdomainreview.org β€” Forgotten visual treasures of history
  41. openculture.com β€” Free archive of culture and education
  42. metmuseum.org β€” Met Museum's open collection
  43. musicmap.info β€” Family tree of music genres
  44. radiooooo.com β€” Pick a country and decade to listen to that era
  45. listen.hatnote.com β€” Turn Wikipedia edits into audio
  46. wikipedia.org β€” Random knowledge well
  47. timeanddate.com β€” Time, sunrises, and sky events
  48. sciencedaily.com β€” Live stream of science news
  49. arxiv.org β€” Free preprints of scientific papers
  50. observablehq.com β€” Visualize data with live code
Connected Cars Are a Surveillance Platform - Schneier on Security

Researchers at Northeastern University, in collaboration with Consumer Reports, evaluated how much modern cars spy in their drivers:

The new Northeastern study shows, for the first time, data flowing among the vehicles, the vehicle apps you download when you buy your car, and third-party companies, documenting exactly what kind of data gets siphoned from our vehicles and which companies are receiving that information.

Basically, your car’s manufacturer has you under constant surveillance, and they use that data against you.